Monday, December 31, 2007

Peter is our host with the most this week. He is a funny guy ... and wants us to laugh our way into 2008. Here is his mission for us:

I want you to tell us your favorite joke and/or show us your favorite cartoon, don’t worry if there is some duplication that just means more than one person found it funny. So come on and regale us with your best joke and/or cartoon, remember its New Years Eve and we feel like a good laugh, before 2008 comes along and does its thing on us.

Well, well, well (a deep subject).

I'm a funny gal too, but if you ask me to come up with a joke, I freeze up like a broken Frigidaire. (And I'm showing my age, too.) So I'm going to see what everyone else thinks is funny by visiting all the Fun Monday folks today.

Anyway, there is a family joke that we tell over and over again. I don't know how FUNNY it is, but it amuses us.

A duck walked into a bar and asked the bartender: "Got any grapes?" (except for reasons I can't explain we always say "gwapes" ... adds to the humor? Or not.)ANYWAY...

A duck walked into a bar and asked the bartender: "Got any grapes?"

The bartender said, "No." And the duck left.

The next day, the duck walked into the bar and asked the bartender: "Got any grapes?"

The bartender gave the duck a dirty look, but answered: "No." And the duck left.

The next day, the duck walked into the bar and asked the bartender: "Got any grapes?"

The bartender leaned over the bar and hollered: "Every day you come in here asking for grapes. Every day I tell you NO, we don't have any grapes. What is it with you anyway? If you come in here once more, I'm going to nail your beak to this bar!!!!"

The duck apologized and left the bar.

The next day, the duck came into the bar and asked the bartender: "Got any nails?"

My favorite joke that NO ONE in my family gets is: An old man goes to the doctor and says, "Doc, you gotta help me, I can't pee!" The doc says, "How old are you, sir?" The guy says, "I'm 96!" The doc says, "Haven't you peed enough?"

You made me snort my pre-New Years Eve party drink out my nose! I love those ...a ____ walks into a bar jokes! Thanks for visiting my blog, and for the birthday wishes! This is a fun blog, I'll be back!

Yeah, I didn't feel up to the challenge this week. I laugh a lot and my family makes up all kinds of crazy jokes and carries on like you wouldn't believe, but I don't consider myself particularly funny. I can't tell a joke to anyone outside of my husband and kids and usually the "jokes" we tell around here are puns or plays off something someone has said or we've seen or heard. I don't know if anyone else would get us. As far as the best jokes I've heard from other people? Same freeze up there. I can't remember when *asked*.

We do have one running gag around here. My mom is extremely grossed out by a certain scene in Monty Python's "Meaning of Life". Ever since high school, my brother and I have made references to it whenever possible because we love to see her reaction. When we go over to her house for our New Year's Day dinner today, someone is bound to say "Put it in a bucket" and "It's only a tiny, wafer-thin after dinner mint." Once I even topped a birthday cake with fake barf (rubber from the novelty store) and covered the outside with Ande's mints for my brother's birthday because I knew she would freak out and my brother would laugh hysterically.

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I'm a working wife and mom, married 9 years to the Wonderhubby. My five kids (yes five) are 31 (Drummer Man), 28 (Drama King), 22 (Z-man), 22 (J-Bear) and (gulp) 18 (the Roo-girl). What was I thinking? Oh yeah, I was thinking that I love my life, my kids, my world. Right now, I'm dealing with the end of high school and the start of college years (eek!), new drivers, rebellious twentysomethings, my emptying nest (cry) and letting go. Email me at jsongbird4(at)aol.com